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May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada! To help you get in the spirit—and also test your knowledge of Canadian literature—we invite you to try our quiz on some of the prominent authors of Asian origin in Canada. For more information on Canadians of Asian heritage, go to Asian Heritage Month on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website.

This Eurasian novelist, poet and short-story writer lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, but writes in French.

The first author to win the Giller Prize twice, this nuclear-physicist-turned-novelist writes about the experiences of East African Indians.

This Quebec author won the 2002 Canada-Japan Literary Award for the novel Kimchi.

This Saskatchewan-born poet, novelist and academic was Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2013.

This author was nominated for the 2009 Governor General’s Award for his novel The Worlds Within Her.

This Canadian-born emergency physician won the 2006 Giller Prize for the short story collection Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures.

This short story writer and novelist from Vancouver won the 2006 Books in Canada First Novel Award for Certainty.

This author won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book for the novel The Electrical Field.

This Toronto-born editor and translator is also an award-winning author of non-fiction for children and young adults.

Influenced by the Japanese folktales she heard as a child from her grandmother and father, this author incorporates fantasy and magical realism into her work.

For the novel The Hero’s Walk, this author won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book from Canada and the Caribbean.

This author of children’s and young adult literature was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Child of Dandelions, a historical fiction novel about the expulsion of Asians in Uganda.

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